HIS Radeon HD 5670 IceQ Video Card Review
HIS Radeon HD 5670 IceQ (Cont’d)
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The active heatsink that comes with this video card is definitely the highlight from this product and a tradition on products from HIS. This cooling solution is actually manufactured by Arctic Cooling, based on their discontinued VGA Silencer product. The cooler, however, doesn’t touch the memory chips, as you can see in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Cooler doesn’t touch the memory chips.
In Figure 5, you can see the video card with the heatsink removed, and we were surprised to see only solid capacitors and ferrite chokes, giving this card a top-notch component quality.
Figure 5: Video card with heatsink removed.
The reviewed card uses four 1 Gbit GDDR5 chips, making its 512 MB video memory. The chips used are H5GQ1H24MFR-T0 parts from Hynix, which support up to 1 GHz (4 GHz QDR) and since on this video card memory is already accessed at 1 GHz (4 GHz QDR), there is no margin for you to increase the memory clock rate keeping the chips inside the maximum they support.
Figure 6: Memory chip.
In Figure 7, you can see the accessories that come with the reviewed card: a folder containing a generic manual and a driver CD.
Figure 7: Accessories.
Before seeing the performance results, let’s recap the main features of this video card.